Holston
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Character Key:
Display Name:
Holston
Sort Name:
Holston
AKA:
Alexander Holston
Doctor Holston
Race:
White
Gender:
Male
Class:
Middle Class
Rank:
Peripheral
Vitality:
Dead
Occupation:
Management
Specific Job:
Hotel Proprietor
First Mentioned:
Other Texts:
Biography:
One of the original three white settlers in Yoknapatawpha, the men "who had ridden horseback into the county before its boundaries had ever been surveyed and located and named" (73). He built the hotel on the Square that still bears his name, though "few in the county know or care where [the name] came from" (74).
Property Status:
owns business
Financial Status:
controls substantial wealth
Individual or Group:
Individual
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